Robert B. Hibbs

Hibbs was ordained to the diaconate on June 1, 1957, by Bishop W. Blair Roberts, and to the priesthood on December 21, 1957, by Bishop Oliver J. Hart of Pennsylvania.^[2] Later he moved to Canada and completed postgraduate studies in Toronto. Afterwards he commenced missionary work in the Philippians and served on the faculty of St Andrew’s Theological Seminary in Quezon City. After his return to the United States in 1972, he became vicar of St Peter's Church in Borger, Texas, until 1975 when he accepted the post of rector of St Stephen's Church in Lubbock, Texas. He taught at the Seminary of the Southwest between 1980 and 1983, before becoming rector of St Barnabas' Church in Fredericksburg, Texas. In 1988, he became assistant rector at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Corpus Christi, Texas.^[3]

Hibbs was elected Suffragan Bishop of West Texas on September 9, 1995, on the third ballot^[4] and consecrated on January 6, 1996, at the First United Methodist Church in Corpus Christi, Texas, by Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning.^[5] He retired in December 2003 and died in San Antonio on April 17, 2017.^[6] He married Nancy Joane Alexander on August 24, 1957, and together had three children.